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Only a small fraction of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have independent redshift measurements, which are essential for understanding their intrinsic properties. For this reason, empirical correlations of GRBs have often been touted as useful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Emre S. Yorgancioglu , Yun-Fei Du , Shu-Xu Yi , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Owing to narrow energy band of \textit{Swift}/BAT, several urgent issues are required to pay more attentions but unsolved so far. We systematically study the properties of a refined sample of 283 \textit{Swift}/BAT gamma-ray bursts with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-30 Z. B. Zhang , M. Jiang , Y. Zhang , K. Zhang , X. J. Li , Q. Zhang

The recent detections of bright optical/infrared kilonova signals following two long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), GRB 211211A and GRB 230307A, have significantly challenged the traditional classification of GRBs. These merger-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Yacheng Kang , Jin-Ping Zhu , Yu-Han Yang , Ziming Wang , Eleonora Troja , Bing Zhang , Lijing Shao , Zhuo Li

The delay in the arrival times between high and low energy photons from cosmic sources can be used to test the violation of the Lorentz invariance (LIV), predicted by some quantum gravity theories, and to constrain its characteristic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 M. G. Bernardini , G. Ghirlanda , S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , J. -L. Atteia , S. Covino , G. Ghisellini , A. Melandri , F. Piron , R. Salvaterra , G. Tagliaferri

To draw inferences about gamma-ray burst (GRB) source populations based on Swift observations, it is essential to understand the detection efficiency of the Swift burst alert telescope (BAT). This study considers the problem of modeling the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-10 Philip B Graff , Amy Y Lien , John G Baker , Takanori Sakamoto

The intriguing observations of Swift/BAT X-ray flash XRF 060218 and the BATSE-BeppoSAX gamma-ray burst GRB 980425, both with much lower luminosity and redshift compared to other observed bursts, naturally lead to the question of how these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco Virgili , Enwei Liang , Bing Zhang

It was found by Amati et al. in 2002 that for a small sample of 9 gamma-ray bursts, more distant events appear to be systematically harder in the soft gamma-ray band. Here, we have collected a larger sample of 65 gamma-ray bursts, whose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-18 J. J. Geng , Y. F. Huang

We have performed a joint analysis of prompt emission from four bright short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the Suzaku-WAM and the Konus-Wind experiments. This joint analysis allows us to investigate the spectral properties of short-duration…

Gamma-Ray bursts (GRBs) have been traditionally classified based on their duration. The increasing number of extended emission (EE) GRBs, lasting typically more than 2 seconds but with properties similar to those of a short GRBs, challenges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 K. Garcia-Cifuentes , R. L. Becerra , F. De Colle , J. I. Cabrera , C. del Burgo

The correlations involving the long-GRB prompt emission energy represent a new key to understand the GRB physics. These correlations have been proved to be the tool which makes long-GRBs a new class of standard candles. Gamma Ray Bursts,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Ghirlanda

Some short GRBs are followed by longer extended emission, lasting anywhere from ~10 to ~100 s. These short GRBs with extended emission (EE) can possess observational characteristics of both short and long GRBs (as represented by GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-07 Y. Kaneko , Z. F. Bostanci , E. Gogus , L. Lin

We have performed a systematic study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), which have various values in the peak energy of the ${\nu}F_{\nu}$ spectrum of the prompt emission, $E_{{\rm peak}}$, observed by \textsl{Swift}/BAT and \textsl{Fermi}/GBM,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Daisuke Katsukura , Takanori Sakamoto , Makoto S. Tashiro , Yukikatsu Terada

A large class of gamma-ray burst (GRB) models (overwhelming until recently) involve the release of energy in a neutron star quake. Even though the extreme isotropy of the GRB sky established by the BATSE experiment has now shifted the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. E. Horvath

We investigated how Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission measurements are affected by increasing distance to the source. We selected a sample of 26 bright GRBs with measured redshifts $z<1$ observed by the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Michael J. Moss , Amy Y. Lien , S. Bradley Cenko , Sylvain Guiriec , Craig B. Markwardt

Brightness dependent correlations have been conclusively detected in the average time profiles of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Determining the time constants of the stretched exponential slopes of the average peak-aligned time profile of GRBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Boris Stern , Juri Poutanen , Roland Svensson

We test the correlation found by Reichart et al. (2001) between time variability and peak luminosity of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Recently Guidorzi et al. (2005) found that this still holds for a sample of 32 GRBs with spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-29 Cristiano Guidorzi

Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) collimation has been inferred with the observations of achromatic steepening in GRB light curves, known as jet breaks. Identifying a jet break from a GRB afterglow lightcurve allows a measurement of the jet opening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Xiang-Gao Wang , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Rui-Jing Lu , Jing Li , Long Li

Following our previous work, we conclude that a GRB standard candle constructed from the Ghirlanda et al. power-law relation between the geometry-corrected energy (E_gamma) and the peak of the rest-frame prompt burst spectrum (E_p) is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Andrew S. Friedman , Joshua S. Bloom

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful tracers of star-forming galaxies. We have defined a homogeneous subsample of 69 Swift GRB-selected galaxies spanning a very wide redshift range. Special attention has been devoted to making…

The energetics and emission mechanism of GRBs are not well understood. Here we demonstrate that the instantaneous peak flux or equivalent isotropic peak luminosity, L_iso ergs s^-1, rather than the integrated fluence or equivalent isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-22 R. Willingale , P. T. O'Brien , M. R. Goad , J. P. Osborne , K. L. Page , N. R. Tanvir